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I had always been under the impression that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" was a poem about the fall of man (Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge in Paradise and are consequently expelled).

Having always imagined this to be a grimly theological poem, I was surprised, on actually sampling it, to find out just how many references there were in it to sex.

Sample one:-

Peor his other name, when he enticed
Israel in Sittim on their march from Nile
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarged
Even to that hill of scandal, by the Grove
Of Moloch homicide, lust hard by hate;
Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.
With these came they, who from the bordering flood
Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts
Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names
Of Baalim and Ashtaroth, those male,
These feminine. For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both; so soft
And uncompounded is their essence pure,
No...